The Shire: Land of the Tao . . . and of Solid Right Hemispheres
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 57
Topic
The Tao
The Tao is the door to transcendence; it is the door away from the left-hemispheric emphasis on essence: things, definitions, quantities. It is the first element of reality: prior to essence and existence. It is, therefore, undefinable and unnameable. We need to get to know it even though we can't get to know it.
No Woom for Wu? You Have Pwoblems
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 3
In Praise and Condemnation of Dogma
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 2
Why was the "Door" Concept Such a Big Thing in the 1960s?
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 1
Tao Teh Ching: A Short Meditation on Its Title and Its Importance
Introduction to an 81-Part Series
Paul Kingsnorth on the Collapse of the Left Hemisphere's Reign and the (Hopeful) Rise of the Tao
The global Machine is teetering, even as it clamps down on its citizenry in an attempt to tamp down unrest and rein in its own wanton destruction of creation and culture. A way of seeing that sets itself against what C. S. Lewis happily characterized as the Tao—the way
Selections From John Wu's Translation of the Tao Teh Ching
Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.
The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things,
Inklings and Tuesday Beer
It is Nature, it is the Way, the Road. It is the Way in which the universe goes on, the Way in which things everlastingly emerge, stilly and tranquilly, into space and time. It is also the Way which every man should tread in imitation of that cosmic and supercosmic
How to Kill the Tao
The left hemisphere gets things done. The Tao isn’t concerned about getting things done. Let your left hemisphere dominate: you’ll never be bothered by the Tao again.
We Need to Resist the World of Pure Action
Last week, Michael Osterholm went on the Joe Rogan Experience for the second time.
Osterholm, some might recall, went on Rogan early in the pandemic. Later Rogan guests decried him as a “chicken little” who was just trying to hawk his book. Osterholm said things that turned out to be